Review – They Nest

They stink. This made-for-TV horror movie about killer cockroaches was most likely written by the villains themselves (or at the very least by writers with equivalent IQs). It’s not bad enough that they make these stupid bugs into a supposedly menacing threat to humanity. Nobody feels sorry for roaches, so that was a fairly safe call. But there’s a particularly sick sequence toward the beginning in which the bugs brutally butcher a class pet hamster. The scene doesn’t even contribute anything to the plot. Who thought that was a good idea? A filmmaker who was one of those kids who got his jollies pulling the wings off flies, no doubt. My only regret is that I don’t have a rating worse than “wish I’d skipped it” to dish out to this stinker. Maybe I could invent one for this special occasion. Avoid at all costs